Jacob katzenberg



(No Model.)

J-. KATZENBERG.

SUSPENDERS.

Patented July 5 UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

JACOB KATZENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUSPEFNDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 478,335, dated July 5, 1892.

Application filed April 26, 1892- Serial 110.430,?633- v (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB KATZENBERG, a

citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of New York, and State of .provement applied thereto.

view showing a modification. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the two members of my adjusting device detached. Fig. 4 is a like view of the plates shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the two members differing slightlyin form, and Fig. 6 is a toothed plate which I sometimes use to conceal and cover the attachingprongs of the two adjusting members.

. Various improvements have been made by means of which the shoulder-straps of sus penders are adapted to adjust themselves to the movements of the wearer, and notably among them are what is known in the trade as the lace-back, and in which the shoulderstraps are laced where they come together at the rear, either by an elastic or non-elastic lace. When an elastic lace has been used, it

allows of some adjustment; but it soon tears in use and from the rotting of the rubber. The inelastic lace affords but little, if any, adj ustment and is also soon broken. I obviate these objections by my improvement, which consists in providing the shoulder-straps at their point of junction in the rear with two plates, one of which carries a button or stud and the other has a triangular slot in which the shank of the stud can play, so as to provide both vertical and lateral adjustment, as

well as to allow the shoulder-straps to be de tached from each other, if desired.

On the drawings all the plates are alike excepting in themeans of attaching them. A represents the stud-plate, and B the slotted plate.

The plates may be made substantially crescent-shaped, as in Figs. 1 and 3, or rectangular, as in Figs. 2, 4, and 5.

On the plate A, at a suitable distance from its edge, is mounted or formed a stud or button a, and the plate B has aslot I) along its edge, which is of suitable length and width, and also a second slot 1). at right angles to the slot 19 and intersecting the latter. Attaching prongs or points 0 are struck from or formed on both plates, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 5, or the plates may be provided with threadholes 0, as in Figs. 2 and 4, and which are the equivalent of the prongs. These plates are attached tothe shoulder-straps of the suspenders at the rear, and they may be attached to the webbing, or may be inserted between two plies thereof, if desired.

When the plates having the points or prongs are used, the latter are driven through the webbing and upset, and, if desired, the toothed plate 0 (shown in Fig. 6) may be applied from the under side to conceal and cover the upset points'or prongs on the adj usting-plates. This plate may be rectangular or of the form shown in dotted lines.

When the perforated plates with the threadholes are to be used, they of course are stitched to the webbing in their proper relation by any suitable means.

' The surfaces of the plates maybe ornamented in any way that may be desired.

The operation of my invention will be readily apparent. The motion of the body of the wearer upward or downward causes the shank of the stud to move back and forth in the slot 1), and any lateral movement causes it to move horizontally in the transverse slot 1). In fact, the shoulder-straps will be automatically adjusted tov almost any movement of the wearer. If it should be desired to separate the shoulder-straps in the rear, it is only necessary to turn the head of the button or stud edgewise, when it may be readily passed through the slot, and thus the parts may be readily detached.

Having thus fully describedmy invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Suspenders having the shoulder straps adj ustably connected'to each other in the rear by two plates secured thereto, one of said plates carrying a stud or button and the other provided with an angular slot forming a bear.-

jing for the shank of the stud, so that the ICO shoulder-straps will automatically adjust themselves to the movements of the wearer, substantially as set forth.

2. In suspenders, the combination, with the shoulder-straps, of plate A, carrying a stud or button, and plate 13, having vertical and transverse intersecting slots, and means for securing said plates to the Webbing, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, in suspenders, of the JACOB KATZENBERG.

1 In presence elf- ABRAHAM NUSSBAUM, A. LANNENBERG. 

